Windfall Films announces lifestyle commissions for Channel 4
Category: News Release
8 March 2018
Windfall Films, part of Argonon Group, announces two lifestyle series for More4 – exploring boundary-pushing forms of home building.
Impossible Builds is a brand new eight part series that explores how a new wave of innovatively engineered ‘kit’ homes is helping ambitious home owners construct dream houses in some of the most remote and challenging locations across the UK.
In each episode, architectural designer Charlie Luxton and commercial designer Aidan Keane meet determined families going against the odds to build bespoke homes on plots ranging from a stormy rugged island to a remote, cliff-top perch overlooking a loch.
The new series uses the latest augmented reality (AR) CGI animations and spectacular drone photography to chart each extreme build and reveal the ingenious engineering at the heart of the revolutionary homes.
Impossible Builds is executive produced by Windfall Films’ Creative Director Carlo Massarella and series produced and directed by Johnny Shipley. Commissioned by Channel 4’s David Sayer for More4.
Mark Evans also returns to More4 to present Windfall Films’ second series of My Floating Home. Mark meets pioneering homebuilders leaving landlocked living behind to realise their dream of living in a waterborne home.
From a trailblazing fibreglass aquatic ‘pod’ built in Southampton to the conversion of a historic ship destined for a mooring in the shadow of London’s Tower Bridge, the series explores the unique design innovations and construction challenges involved in living on water. From building kitchens in barge hulls and creating bedrooms out of anchor stores to installing underwater windows that gaze out onto marine life, each build provides the perfect opportunity for clever interior design - from high-tech to homely.
My Floating Home 2 is 8 x 60’ series, executive produced by Windfall Films’ Creative Director, Carlo Massarella and series produced by Clare Fisher. Commissioned by Channel 4’s David Sayer for More4.
Carlo Massarella, Creative Director, Windfall Films says “These two innovative series offer fascinating and inspiring ways of thinking outside of the box when it comes to designing your own dream home. New technology is making it possible for contemporary home-owners to change their lives offering affordable and creative solutions to building their dream house almost anywhere in the UK.”
David Sayer, Head of Daytime, Channel 4 says “Both of these series will follow the ground breaking developments of designing a home in some of the most challenging locations in the UK. Inventive technology and original concepts will demonstrate to home-owners across the UK the incredible results and challenges faced, in an attempt to build their dream home.”
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About Windfall Films
Windfall Films has an international reputation as a producer of innovative television programmes – most recently the challenging historical adventure series Mutiny for Channel 4, and the ambitious engineering series The Fifteen Billion Pound Railway for the BBC. Windfall has applied its distinctive approach to a range of genres, including science and history documentaries, factually-based dramas and original format shows. The company has collected numerous awards for its programming, including BAFTAs for Inside Nature’s Giants, D-Day: As It Happens and Murder Trial, an Emmy and National Academy of Sciences Award for Your Inner Fish and a Wildscreen Panda Award for The Bat Man of Mexico.
Windfall is one of the leading producers of science and technology programmes in the UK and became part of Argonon Group in 2014. Further highlights include: The Wonder of Dogs for BBC Two; Television’s Opening Night: How The Box Was Born and Spider House for BBC Four, Easter Eggs Live, Foxes Live: Wild in the City, and Inside Nature's Giants for Channel 4; My Floating Home for More4; Unearthed, Strip The City, Strip The Cosmos and How Things Work for the Science Channel; Railroad Alaska for Destination America & Animal Planet, Rocky Mountain Railroad for Discovery, Big Kitchens for FYI and Making North America, Inside Chernobyl’s Mega Tomb and Inside Einstein’s Mind for PBS NOVA.
About Argonon
Argonon is the award-winning super-indie production group, formed by Leopard Films’ CEO James Burstall in 2011. This unique group of companies delivers world class entertainment with creative and diverse talent both on and off screen. Companies include Leopard Pictures, Leopard USA, Remedy Productions, Cascade (Remedy Productions Canada), Windfall Films, BriteSpark Films, Transparent Television, Tough Cookie, Bandicoot, Barefaced, Like A Shot and Argonon International. The Group is headquartered in London, with offices in Manchester, Glasgow, New York and Vancouver. Content from the group includes Emmy and BAFTA award-winning factual, factual entertainment, entertainment, drama, arts, comedy and children’s programming.
Argonon is proud to be a rare, true independent group in the UK and is listed in the Sunday Times HSBC Track 200 as one of the UK’s fastest growing companies, and one of 1000 Companies to Inspire Britain 2017, as named by the London Stock Exchange.
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